Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1888 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC. The patent feather manufacturers have- combined to raise prices. It is said that John Mackey lias sold his cable lines to Jay Gould for $11,000,000. The reception.to M*.,JBlaine when he reaches New York promises to be a great affair. Hon. T. Davidson, Grand Master of the National Grange, died at Jackson, Miss., Tuesday. deaths from hydrophobia occurred in Chicago. Ip one of the cases the suffering was excruciating. v Ives, the C., H. A D. wrecker, indicted at Cincinnati for perjury, is cutting a wide swath as a “swell” at Niagara, on the Canadian side. Henry Goddar, who has collected several thousand dollars by representing himself as a pension examiner, has been arrested at Pittsburg. A meeting of iron manufacturers of the Mahoning Valley was held at Youngstown, 0.. and it was resolved to continue the lockout indefinitely. At New York Nicol, Cowlishaw & Co., importers of upholstery, have made an assignment. They claimed $500,000 surplus, and the failure caused surprise. The Association of Manufacturers of Iron, Steel and Nails has practically gone to pieces, but this will have no effect on the Amalgamated Association. Fanny Davenport, the actress, has been granted an absolute divorce by Judge Barrett, of the New York Supreme Court, from Edwin \V. Price, her husband. /

Rev. E. P. Roe, the novelist, died at Newburg, N. Y., Friday. He. was born in 1838, and after the war entered the ministry. He has written many popular novels. Gen. Thomas L. Young, elected Lieu-tenant-Goverrtor of Ohio with R. B. Hayes, in 1875, and who tilled the office of Governor after Hayes became President, died at Cincinnati, Friday. A company with a capital of $1,000,000 will develop twenty thousand acres of iron and timber lands in Cherokee county, Texas. The product of the iron beds, they say, cannot be excelled. r The New York Legislature, Friday, abolished the use of machinery in the penal institutions of the State. Convicts will only be employed at hand labor upon goods required in the prison system. The Industrial Home and School founded by the late Francis A. Drexel’s daughters near Bristol, Pa., was formally opened Thursday, 200 boys being transferred to the school from the St. John’s Orphan Asylum in Philadelphia. Three brothers, Dr. Bass Rawson, of Findlay, 0., Dr. L. I. Rawson, of Fremont, 0., and Dr. Secretary Rawson, of Des Moines, lowa, aged respectively 89, 84 and 92 years, are still regularly practicing medicine in their respective localities. A fire at Chicago, Wednesday, caused a loss of $215,000. The fire originated in 1 the magnificent five story building on the corner of Wabash avenue and Mon- • roe street, and was occupied by the Chicago Carpet Company and other firms. The stock was partially insured. Mrs. jlohn A. Logan is at the home of her son at Youngstown, 0., completely prostrated on account of the false reports published all over the country to the effect that General Logan’s remains were to be removed from Washington. It is feared she will not recover.

Another great oil well has been discovered near Findlay, 0. It is estimated that the flow at present is from 7,000 to 10,000 barrels per day. The well will probably produce 3,000 barrels when the first pressure is off. Another well on the samejarm yields 10,000 barrels daily. The Secretary of the Illinois Board of Agriculture has received information of the action of farmers of Crawford county, who have resolved not to raise any wheat, barley or rye for the next three years, in an effort to exterminate the chinch bug. These farmers will exert their influence to this end with the fanners of adjoining counties. The ship Farragut, with an assorted cargo valued at $120,000, from Calcutta for New York, has been 185 days out, and is given up for lost, and her crew of twenty-two Boston seamen, under command of Captain Richard F. Hardwick, of Malden,are believed to have perished, together with the Captain’s wife and daughter. On Friday a collision on the Lehigh & Susquehanna railroad resulted in the death of conductor George Kaiser. Five train hands were badly injured. Near Barbourville, Ky., on the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and work train collided, killing W. F. Shanks and R. Coleman, and injuring two others. . ' __ Mrs. Logan has Anally determined that the body of Gen. Logan shall be permanently buried at Washington. She de-__afred-te-hftve-4he-remaing buried in- IlHnois, stipulating that a $250,800 monument should be erected to his memory. The raising of this sum seeming to be beyond the bounds of possibility, she decrees that the body shall be buried at the Soldiers’ Home at Washington. The richest discovery- of gold ever made outside the Comstock lode waa made at the Lake Superior Iron Company’s shaft, seven miles from Ishperning, Mich., Friday morning. Three ~hundredpomidsof"qnartz,cat f rylHgfree

gold at the rate of over $60,000 to the ton, was uncovered by one blast, and brought into the city, where it is creating the wildest excitement. The quartz is worth fully SIO,OOO. Disastrous results followed an attempt Friday morning, to pull down an old building at Chicago, While the work of demolition was going on, one of the brick walls facing North Clark street collapsed prematurely. A number of persons were caught by the falling mass. A contractor in l charge,- Charles Wick* 1 ler, was killed outright. John Lecher, nr laborer, Suffered a similar fate. Ten other persons were taken out alive, some very severely injured, but none, it appears fatally. A terrific rain storm and cloudburst occurred at Wheeling, W. Va., Thursday. The Ohfo.river rose three feet in five minutes. The Wheeling & Elin Grove railroad was swept away for miles and the road covered six feet with water. The damage to crops, fences and buildings cannot be computed. Twelve persons were drowned at Wheeling by the giving way of a' bridge. About , thirty persons were precipited into the stream, but by heroic efforts all but twelve were rescued. Several other fatalities are reported. .

A special from Ellensburg, W. T., says a fire Monday afternoon destroyed the coal-mining town of Roslyn, twentyeight miles from that place, rendering the entire population of 1,500 homeless. The wind was blowing at a, fast rate at the time, and the town being without fire apparatus, nothing was saved. Relief was sent from Ellensburg Monday night, provisions and clothes the next morning. About 250 houses were burned. Nothing is left bukthe coal company’s office and depot. Loss, $500,000; no insurance. The Norman Lloyd steamship, Fulda, which arrived at New York, Tuesday, from Breman, ran down an unknown fishing schooner tin the Banks of Newfonndland, last Saturday morning. A dense fog prevailed at the time, and the schooner disappeared astern almost immediately after the collision. Boats were sent out in search of her, but as she was not found, it is feared that she was lost, with all hands, twenty in number. Captain Ringk, of the Fulda, and his officers, say that they were taking all the precautions usual in foggy weather, w'hen the schooner was rnn down, and the accident could not have been avoided.

FOREIGN. Upon searching the houses of a number of suspected persons, the Madrid police found 3,000 weapons of various descriptions. Reports received daily from Suakim by the London Times confirm the opinion that either Henry M. Stanley or Emin Bey is in the vicinity of Darfur. A boat containing nine workmen was stranded in the Kananskis rapids on the Bow river, near Calzary, Manitoba, Thursday, and six of the men were drowned. Dr. Ridgeley, the physician of Tullamore prison, in whieh ManderviHe died, committed suicide, Friday. He was held responsible for permitting the ill-treat-ment which, it is charged, accelerated the death of Mr. Manderville and impaired the health of Mr. O’Brien. A dispatch from Capetown, Africa, says that the Debeers coal mine at Kimberly caught fire. Thursday evening. Eight hundred men were entombed. The work of rescue, which began at once, still continues, bub it is believed that five hundred persons have perished, including Mr. Lindsay, the manager of the company. Many of the victims are white people.

Thousands of visitors came to Peterhof, Thursday morning, to witness the arrival of the two emperors. The Czar was attired in the dress of a general officer, while Emperor William wore a Russian uniform. The Czarina was dressed in white. Emperor William, on arriving, ascended the quay and, with uncovered head, kissed the Czarina’s hand twice. He conversed with her majesty for some minutes. The Emperor responded in Russian to all the greetings extended to him. The imperial party was heartily cheered along the route to the palace. All the members of the party attended a family dinner at the palace in the evening. The Czar and Emperor William intend to confer upon each other the title of honorary admiral. The meeting between the emperors is said to have been extremely cordial.

A FATAL EXP LOSION.

The steamer Convoy left Jeffersonville Thursday evening, with eight barges,for Pittsburg. At 1* o’clock, Friday morning, while opposite Westport, Ind.twenty miles above Jeffersonville, her main steam pipe burst, tearing the floors out of the cabin over the engine, where William Page, William Kerrigan,Robert Jones, William Bagiev, P. Kerrigan, George McCann, Charles Luster and •Charles -GfaanrtTgfg~"slept. ““Ail wrere scalded to death except Chambers, who was blown outtrf the door,but not fatally injured. Eour were killed outright. The others begged piteously to be killed. Of the injured, two died* on board the Mail Line steamer, City of Madison, on the way back to Louisville. The remaind ied in the hospital. The officers of tlie boat can give no explanation of the accident, and claim the rna- j chinery was inspected last February and ■ fonndtabarglPtfggtr ~

WASHINGTON.

Hon. Samuel J. Randall is slowly recovering. The Senate, Tuesday, passed the bill to place John C. Fremont on the retired ist of the army as Major General. Senator Platt, is authorized ! by the Senate committee on Inter-State commerce to report back (with verbal amendments) the Spoqner bill subjecting the telegraph companies to the jurisdiction of the Inter-State commerce (commission and regulating their operations in much the same way as the interstate law regulates the affairs of railroads.,, Secretary Fairchild received a telegram, Friday, from the Governor of Florida, asking the assistance of the Government in suppressing the yellow fever, which, he sayß, threatens to become epidemic at Tampa and Manatee. The Secretary had a conference with Surgeon-General Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital bureau, on the subject, and instructed him to render all possible assistance. He also informed the Governor of Florida by telegraph that the necessary steps would be taken by the. proper federal officers to aid the local authorities. The Senate Friday by a vote qf 41 to 20 confirmed the nomination of Melville W. Fuller, of Chicago, to be Chief Justice of the United States. The ten Republicans who voted for the nomination of Fuller were Messrs. Cameron, Cullom, Davis, Farwell, Frye, Hale, Jones of Nevada, Mitchell, Quay and Riddleberger. All of the Democrats present voted for confirmation. They were Messrs. Bate, Beck, Blackburn, Blodgett, Brown, Butler, Cockrell, Coke, Daniel, Faulkner, George, Gibson, Gorman, Gray, Hampton, Hearst, Jones of Arkansas, McPherson, Morgan, Reagan, Pasco, Payne, Pugh, Ransom, Turpie, Yance, Test, Yoorhees, Walthall, and AVilson of Maryland—a total of thirty-one Democrats. Those voting in the negative were all Republicans, and were as follows: Messrs. Blair, Bowen, Chandler, Dawes, Dolph, Edmunds, Evarts, Hawley, Hoar, Ingalls, Manderson, Palmer, Platt, Sabin, Sawyer, Sherman, Stewart, Stockbridge, Teller, and AVilson of lowa, making in all twenty voting in the negative, and sixty-one altogether voting on the snbject, leaving fifteen absent or paired.

POLITICAL NEWS NOTES.

The reception to Mr. Blaine when he .reaches New York promises to be a great affair. Calvin Brice, of Ohio, President of the Lake Erie and Western railway, has been elected Chairman of the National Democratic Committee. ===*= Gen. Harrison continues almost daily to receive delegations, 400 from Illinois and 1,500 from Shelby county, Ind., called on him Thursday and Friday nights. 'The Prohibition State Convention assembled at Hutchinson, Kas., Wednesday afternoon. About, two hundred delegates w r ere present, thirty-eight of whom were ministers. An unusually large number of women were present. Col. D. W. Houston, the temporary chairman, predicted that the Republican party would be a thing of the past before another year. At the Michigan Deihocratic State Convention at Detroit Thursday, a union with the Greenbackers was effected. Wellington R. Burt, of Saginaw, was nominated for Governor by acclamation. The ticket was completed as follows. Lieutenant Governor, William B. Morgan; Secretary of State. Thomas D. Hawley; State Treasurer, John D. Norton; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Stuart McKibben; State Board of Education, Charles E. King. The Greenbackers, at Grand Rapids, completed the ticket by nominating A. A. Ellistor, Attorney General; Bartley Green, for Auditor General, S. W. Fowler. for Commissioner of State Land Office, and three Inspectors.

THE MILLS BILL PASSED.

There was a great crowd in the galleries of the House, Saturday, and the excitement incident on the final action on the Mills bill was great. Chairman ]J£jil§jnade a last appeal in behalf of the bill. The vote was then taken resulting in the passage of the measure by Ayes 162, nays 149. The following pairs were announced: In favor of the bill-jr-Messrs. Hogg, Whiting of Michigan, Belmont, Perry, Glover and Granger. Against the bill—Messrs. Randall, Hiestand, Davenport, Spooner, Browne of Indiana and Woodburn. The bill was passed by a strict paVtv vote except that two Republicans voted for the bill and three Democrats against it. "The bill now goes to the Senate.

PERSONAL RIGHTS.

A “Personal Rights League,” intended to be National in its scope, was chartered under the State laws at Chicago, Wednesday. The incorporators are wellknown German people. It is organized combat 'prohibition.~ Its platform says: - The Prohibition party as the 1 support-er-of'-intoleration, as the champion of legalized guardianship to one portion of the people over the other portion;andby systematically destroying the citizen’s appreciation of their personal right, is seeking tn place itself ai the head of the American Nation. Prohitntionist agita- • tions have assumed an attitude so tbreatr j ening that it becomes the duty of the 4iherty-lovTng' citizens to oppose them as

harmful to public interest and reprehensible. .

JSxcessive indulgence in alcohol can only be prevented by rational and liberal laws to be strictly enforced; by strict laws against the misuse of alcohol; by exercise on the part es the authorities of strict control over the manufacture and sale of beverages; and by means of institutions capable of improving the social conditions of the working classes; bfit it can never be prevented by prohibition. The by-laws provide for a liferarv bureau to disseminate the league’s principles, and cofnbat its opponents through the medium of the press,

THE ANARCHISTS AGAIN.

Frank Chleboun has made a full confession of the scheme to murder Judge Cary, Judge Grinnell and Inspector Bonfield. Thursday night Inspector Bonfield, accompanied by two of his Bohemian secret operatives, visited the innocent-looking prisoner. The preceding day he had intimated that he was ready to tell all he knew, and Thursday evening the inspector went to hear his story. Through the interpreters Chleboun went into the whole story from his first meeting with Hronex and Chepak. His confession was that Hronek had unfolded his plans for revenge and had told of a bomb which he (Hronek) had invented. It was small, not larger than a base ball, and it was to be loaded with dynamite and bits of broken glass. It was denied bv Chelboun that the plan was to murder the judge and inspector; that he heard of no such a definite scheme. They were talked of, as was Capt. Schaak, and he understood that he was to pay more attention to the captain than to any one else. There was no concerted plan of action, but it was agreed that when all preparations were made lie and two others were to be informed by Hronek what they were to do in the way of avenging the death of the martyrs. About July 1 he was visited by Hronek, who brought him two bombs of the broken glass variety and two sticks of dynamite from which he was to make bombs of gas pipe after the usual pattern. The other two men were also supplied with bombs and dynamite. He had the stuff in his house for about a week and then grew so afraid that it would be discovered that he made away with it by throwing it in a vault. This was the substance of a confession which Inspector Bonfield placed in the hands of a type-writer operator for the purpose of having put in shape for court. The confession is much more in detail, and covers about thirty closely printed pages. By his confession it is understood- Chelboan has virtually secured immunity from prosecution. He is in reality much less guilty than are either Hronek, Chepak or one of the men not yet arrested. He has agrped to give his testimony in open court, where it will corroborate the other evidence secured by the inspector against the conspirators. The other two men are still at large, but may be arrested at any time.

A SECRET ORDER FAILS.

It is deffinitely settled that the United Order of Honor is hopelessly involved in debt. The order is a secret insurance organization with headquarters at Indianapolis, and a large following in Missouri and surrounding States. It was formed from the wreck of the Independent Order of Workingmen in 1873. It collapsed in 1878, on account of the yellow fever epidemic. Two years afterward the United Order of Honor was formed out of the membership of the old order. In seven years the membership numbered 7,000, and then came the first staggering blow’ that started the order into decline. California demanded a separate jurisdiction. Under stress it was granted, and the. membership dropped off 2,000. Other breakers wtefe encountered, and at the last session of the grand lodge it was found that ■ the order was in bad financial condition, but it was believed not hopelessly. During December, January, February and March the death rate was extremely light, but in April, for causes not explainable, the death rate suddenly increased so much that the liabilities upon the deaths occurring in that month were several thousand dollars more than could be collected. May and June followed with equally as high a death rate. Theii * Missouri rebelled and refused longer to pay assessments or recognize the authority of the grand lodge. The membership of the order is now therefore but about 3,000, and the indebtedness will probably reach SBO,OOO. The loss falls upon the beneficiaries of deceased members. It is believed the lodges in Indiana will be maintained, either under a new name or as an organization operating independent of the Supreme Lodge.

BASE BALL.

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A PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE.

li v Hie (ivll Serv e' CemmUaion an! It. Work Hi- > 1.-"«•«!. The President sent to Congress Monday the following message: To the Congress of the United .States: Pursuant to the second section of chapter XXA’II of the laws of 1883, entitled “An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States,” I herewith transmit the fourth report of the United States civil service commission, covering the period between the 10th day of January, 1886, and the first'' day of July, 1887. AVliile this report has especial reference to the operations of the Commission during the period above mentioned, it contains, with its accompanying appendices, much valuable information concerning the inception of civil service reform and its growth and progress, which cannot but De interesting and instructive to all who desire improvement in administrative methods, During the time covered by the report 15,852 persons were examined for admission in the classified civil service of the government in all its branches, of whom 10,750 passed the examination and failed. Of those who passed the examination 2,977 were applicants for admission to the departmental service at'Washington, 2,547 were examined for admission to the customs service. During the same period, 547 appointments were made from the eligible lists to the departmental service, 641 to the customs service and 3,254-to the postal service. Concerning separations from the classified service, the report only informs us of such as have occcurred among employes in the public service who has been appointed from eligible lists under civil service rules. When these rules took effect they did not apply to persons then in the service, comprising a full complement of employes, who obtained their position independent of the new law. The commission has no record of the separations in this numerous class, and the discrepancy apparent in the report between the number of appointments made in the respective branches of the service from the lists of the commission and the small number of separations mentioned, is, to a great extent, accounted for by vacancies, of which no report was made to the commission, occuring among those who held their places without examination and certification, which vacancies were filled by appointment from the eligible lists. In the departmental service there occurred, between the 6tli day of January, 1886, and the 30th day of June, 1887, among the employes appointed from the eligible lists under civil service ruleß, seventeen removals, thirtv-six resignations and five deaths. This does not include fourteen separations on the grade of special pension examiners—four by removal, five by resignation and five by death. In this classified customs and postal service the number of separations among those who received absolute appointments under the civil service rules are given for the period between the Ist day of January, 1886, and the 30th day of J\ine, 1887. It appears that such separations in the customs service for the time mentioned embraced twenty-one removals, five deaths and eighteen resignations, and in the postal service 258 removals, twenty-three deaths and 409

resignations. More than a year has passed since the expiration of the period covered by the report of the commission. Within the time thus elapsed many important changes have taken place in furtherance of a reform in our civil service. The rules and regulations governing the violation of the law upon the . subject have been completely remodeled in such a manner as to render the enforcement of the statute more effective and greatly increases its usefulness. Among other things, the scope of examinations prescribed for those who seek to enter the classified service has been better defined and made more practical, the number of names ta.be certified from the eligible lists to the appointing officers from which a selection is made, has been reduced from four to three, the maximum limitation of the age 'of persons seeking entrance to the cassified service to forty-five years has been changed, and reasonable provisions have been made for the transfer of employes from one department to another in proper cases. A plan has also been devised providing for the examination of applicants for promotion in the service which, when in full operation, will eliminate all chances of favoritism in the advancement of employes by making promotion a reward of merit and faithful discharge of duty. Until within a few weeks there was no uniform classification of employes in the different executive departments of the Government, As a result of this condition, in some of the departments the positions could be obtained without civil service examination, because they were not within the classification of such department, while in other departments an examination and certification were necessary to obtain positons of the same grade, because such positions were embarrassed in the classification applicable to those departments. The exception of laborers, watchmen, and messengers from examination and classification gave opportunity, in the absence of any rule guarding against it, for the employment, free from civil service restrictions, of persons upder these designations,who were immediately detailed to do clerical worky All this lias been obviated by the application to all the departments of an extended and uniform classification, embracing grade of employes not heretofore included, and by the adaption of a rule prohibiting the detail of laborers, watchmen or messengers to do clerical duty. The path of civil sendee reform . has not at all times been pleasant nor easy, the purpose 5f the reform having been much misapprehended; and this has not only given rise to strong opposition, but this led to its invocation by its friends to compass objects not in the least related to it. Thus partisans of the patronage systems have naturally condemned it. Those; who do not un-derstand-dtirmeaning mistmstitr or, when disappointed because, in its present stage, it is not applied to every real or imaginary ill, accuse thosejeharged with its enforcement with faithlessness to civil service reform. Its importance has frequently been underestimated, and the support of good men has thus been dost by their lack of interest in its success. Besides all d&wa diflfenlties,-those -responsible for the administration of the Government in ita executive branches have been, and still are, often annoyed and irritated by the disloyalty to the service and the insolence aFeniployes who remain in place

as the beneficiaries and the relics or reminders of the vicious system of appointment which civil service reform wairinteded to displace. And yet these are but the incidents of an advance movement, which is radical and far-reaching. The people are, notwithstanding, to be congratulated upon the progress which has been made, and upon the firm, practical and sensible foundation upon wnich this reform now rests. With a continuation of the intelligent fidelity which lias hitherto characterized the work of the commission, with a continuation and increase of the favor jind liberty which have lately been evinced by Congress in the proper equipment of the commision for its work, with a firm but conservative and reasonable support of the reform by all its friends, and with the disappearance of (lie opposition which must inevitably follow its better understanding, the execution of the civil service law cafthot fail to ultimately answer the hopes in which it had its origin.

GROVER CLEVELAND,

Executive Mansion, July 23. 1878.

Borrowing for Funerals.

Philadelphia Record. A Philadelphia undertaker declares that a women who will not. even borrow money from a willing friend will borrow funeral halbiliments and the belongings at a funeral when there is a death in the family. “Itr is astonishing,” said this shrewd observer, who has had long experience in managing funerals, “to what an extent the borrowing business is carried on upon such occasions. It is a little worse in the rural districts generally, and specially prevalent in New Jersey, where any thing from a silk dress to a pair of gloves is sought frem the near and generally obliging neighbor. Some of this is absolutely necessary and excusable, but in some places it has grown to be a custom, and is expected. It is not only the family of the deceased who indulge in this queer habit. The death of a friend is a good excuse forthe asking of a loan of a neighbor’s new high silk hat, or his best black suit, or his wife’s silk dress or almost any thing that is useful at a funeral. One dislikes' to say no upon such an occasion, and the lender can only grin and bear it if the hat shall come home with all its slickness gone and a dent in it, or the new Prince Al bertcoathasa rent in thetail. It would astonish some oeople to know how much of a national custom it has become to borrow from one’s neighbor when there is a funeral in the neighbor-hood.”

Where the Flies Go.

Wilmington, N. C., MettcDger. Some one has asked where do the flies go in the winter? That is a question of some interest, for a house-fly is horn, fully grown, and of mature size, and there are no little flies of the same species, the small ones occasionally observed being different in kind from the large ones. The house-fly does not bite or pierce the skin, but gathers its food by a comb or rake or brush-like tongue, with which it is able to scrape the varnish from the covers of books, and it thus tickles the skin of persons upon whom it lights to feed upon the perspiration. A fly is a scavenger and a vehicle by which contagious diseases are spread. It poisons wounds and may cany deadly virus from decaying organic matter into food. It retires from sight at the beginning of winter, but where it goes few persons know. If a search of the house be made, they will be found in great numbers secreted in warm places in the roof or between partitions or floors. Last winter we had occasion to examine a roof, and found around the chimney myriads of flies hibernating comfortably and sufficiently lively to fly when disturbed in “overpowering clouds.” No doubt this is a favorite winter resort for these insects.

TEN MEN KILLED.

A terrible accident occurred on the Norfolk & Western railroad, at Forest depot, about eight miles from Lynchburg, Vai, at 1 o’clock Sunday morning. Ten men were killed. A freight train, which left Lynchburg about midnight Saturday night, collided at a cut near Forest depot with an east-bound material v train, causing a comp ete wreck of both trains. Engineers Henry and Harris, Darnley, the fireman of the material train, and several colored trainmen, whose names are unknown, were killed. Fireman Mays, of the freight train, was fatally injured. The conductor escaped with slight bruises. The accident was caused, it is claimed, by the conductor of the material train misunderstanding orders. ' '

THE MARKETS.

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